Motherwise Cracks

Sometimes I decide not to look forward to an event because it might not turn out as well as I had imagined that it would. Such was the case with the wine tour we were going on last weekend for my daughter’ s birthday. Her sister had it all set up and they even let [...]

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Free samples. Never met one I didn’t like. As all good advertisers know, the word free sets off an  internal human magnet that is uncontrollable. Free food samples at Sam’s Club are my favorites, especially when the old ladies are working the free sample table. Between their poor eyesight and dementia, it’s about 60 second [...]

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Usually, at about the end of February or the start of March, those of us in colder climes start to get sick of winter. Today I woke up to a veritable Winter Wonderland outside so it was really hard to not find it beautiful. A thick coating of soft snow was piled up on the [...]

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I’m shopping tomorrow. It’s only a day away.
This $50 Marshall’s gift card I have had since Christmas is burning a whole in my pocket so I made a date with the kids to shop. Of course that means I will be footing the bill for dinner but such is life.
I can’t decide if I should [...]

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For my birthday today, my girls took me out for a mani-pedi combo, so I am sporting pretty new finger and toe nails. It was very nice.
My husband made lasagne, which takes him the whole day. He does the same dinner for us every year. It was delicious. I was happy too that my daughter [...]

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I don’t have to eat my hat, not that I felt I was in danger of having to do so.
I got the call today while I was out. Luckily that made it be recorded on my answering machine for all posterity to listen to.
Where was the missing notebook that I was too blind to see? [...]

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First of all, I hate mumbling. That’s what I got on the answering machine – my son mumbling on not just one message, no. He left two consecutive rambling mumblings. Seems he lost his notebook.
Couldn’t find his notebook that he insisted is on the living room floor.  Here I set on that very living room [...]

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Went through the old campus today as I had to drive my son to a place across the street. How appropriate that I be there this weekend, the anniversary of the Bilzzard of ‘77. I was at Buffalo State at that time and lived through the -60 degree wind chill and snow up to the [...]

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